As Jerome expanded, its chances for the title, "the toughest little town in the West," increased and when it was incorporated in 1...899 the citizens were able to support the claim by pointing to the number of thick stone shutters on the fronts of all saloons, gambling halls, and other places of business for protection against gunfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for orn...ament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body w...ill pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. We do not like that kind of immortality, but what is to be done about it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and... as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... woman was made first for her own happiness, with the absolute right to herself ... we deny that dogma of the centuries, incorp...orated in the codes of all nations--that woman was made for man ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience.... Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Some years ago, the State met me in behalf of the Church, and commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman ...whose preaching my father attended, but never I myself. "Pay," it said, "or be locked up in the jail." I declined to pay. But, unfortunately, another man saw fit to pay it. I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster; for I was not the State's schoolmaster, but I supported myself by voluntary subscription. I did not see why the lyceum should not present its tax-bill, and have the State to back its demand, as well as the Church. However, at the request of the selectmen, I condescended to make some such statement as this in writing:M"Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined." This I gave to the town clerk, and he has it. The State, having thus learned that I did not wish to be regarded as a member of that church, has never made a like demand on me since; though it said that it must adhere to its original presumption that time. If I had known how to name them, I should then have signed off in detail from all the societies which I never signed on to; but I did not know where to find a complete list.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinit...esimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »